Head of Investment Banking and Markets Financial Crime Advisory

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Purpose of the role

The Head of Investment Banking and Markets Financial Crime Advisory is responsible for the strategic leadership, oversight, and continuous enhancement of the Investment Bank’s financial crime program. This role ensures serves as a focal point for first, second and third line of defence stakeholders for oversight of financial crime risk management across Banking, Markets and the International Corporate Bank.

The individual will act as a delegate for the Head of IB Financial Crime Advisory, representing the function in senior forums and leading strategic initiatives. This role is responsible for advising senior management, business heads, and control partners on Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, Sanctions and Anti-Bribery & Corruption. The individual will ensure the bank meets regulatory expectations and internal standards while enabling sustainable business growth.

Accountabilities

Strategic Leadership

• Define and execute the Financial Crime Advisory strategy for the Investment Bank which includes Banking, Markets and the International Corporate Bank, ensuring alignment with global compliance frameworks and regulatory expectations.
• Serve as the primary trusted advisor to senior business leaders on financial crime risks and providing constructive challenge where required

Advisory & Risk Management

• Provide expert guidance on high-risk clients, transactions, and new product approvals, including reputational risk assessments and enhanced client and deal due diligence.
• Oversee the review and approval of complex advisory cases, ensuring timely and consistent application of standards across regions.
• Act as a delegate in senior governance forums, regulatory exams, and audits.

Policy & Framework Development

• Shape and maintain the Investment Bank’s financial crime risk appetite framework, embedding it into front-office decision-making.
• Partner with Compliance, Legal, and Risk teams to update processes in response to evolving regulatory and geopolitical risks.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with senior executives across business lines, operations, technology, and control functions.
• Influence decision-making to balance commercial objectives with financial crime risk management.

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing advisory team, fostering a culture of risk ownership and continuous improvement.
• Drive global consistency through regional leads and ensure effective escalation protocols.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.